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NI (formerly AWR Corporation) continues to proudly sponsor this
year's 2017 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) thirteenth annual High-Efficiency Power Amplifier
Student Design Competition (HEPA-SDC). The competition encourages student teams from around the world
to design and construct a power amplifier (PA) and bring it to IMS in Honolulu, Hawaii, where industry
experts will evaluate the performance of all entered PAs on Tuesday, June 6, 2017.

Since 1976, NI has made it possible for engineers and scientists to solve the world's greatest engineering
challenges with powerful, flexible technology solutions that accelerate productivity and drive rapid
innovation. Customers from a wide variety of industries - from healthcare to automotive and from consumer
electronics to particle physics - use NI's integrated hardware and software platform to improve the
world we live in.